(CAMERA-UK) Adam Levick - On Dec. 1, the Guardian ran an article by Bethan McKernan about a Netflix film by a Jordanian film-maker "depicting Zionist forces murdering a Palestinian family" in 1948. The film, readers are told, is "inspired by real events," which mean that the director is not claiming that the events in the film actually occurred. There wouldn't have been a single Palestinian refugee if Arab armies - supported by Palestinian leaders - hadn't invaded the nascent Jewish state with the objective of annihilating the country, a mere three years after the Nazis murdered one out of every three Jews on earth. The Palestinian refugee problem was created by the Arabs themselves, in their malevolent decision to launch an invasion to rid the region of Jews. The "Jewish baby killers" accusation in the film is emblematic of the Palestinian insistence in their own immutable victimhood and lack of agency, and their belief in the irredeemable sin of the modern Jewish state. Those who are convinced that their foe isn't just wrong but evil, lack the moral incentive to ever make the kind of difficult compromises necessary for peace.
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